Blue Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi sat down with the Boston Globe for an interview that ran in Sunday's edition.
"Out of spring training, if you told me this would be our record I'd be shocked, considering what was happening with our pitching. We lost four-fifths of our rotation, so the one thing I said is that we needed our young pitchers to step up, and for the most part they have," Ricciardi said. "We've been able to get these kids a lot of experience. And now we've got Shaun Marcum coming back in August and Casey Janssen after the All-Star break."
After Sunday's loss to the Yankees, the Blue Jays were 42-41 and sat eight games behind the Red Sox for first place in the AL East.
Ricciardi added that he isn't sure whether the team will buy or sell at the trade deadline.
"I think we're going to have a better idea about that once we get through this stretch of games before the break. We've got the Yankees, Tampa Bay, and Baltimore, and if we go 0-10, we'll go one way. If we go 8-2, we'll have to think about adding some pieces," Ricciardi said.
whaddya expect, its the jays and YOU'RE the GM.
